The All-Big 12 Conference football teams and individual award winners have been announced. Selections are made by the league’s 10 head coaches, who are not permitted to vote for their own players.

ALL-BIG 12 HONORS NOTEBOOK♦ Robert Griffin III is the first Baylor player to be named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. He was named Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year in 2008, and is the second Bear to win one of the major individual Big 12 awards, joining Daniel Sepulveda (special teams player of the year, 2006).

♦ The Big 12 has Co-Defensive Players of the Year for the first time in Conference history. A.J. Klein is the first Iowa State player to win this award while Frank Alexander is the third from Oklahoma. Alexander is the second straight Oklahoma player to capture Defensive Lineman of the Year (Jeremy Beal, 2010).

♦ Grant Garner is the second player from Oklahoma State in the last three years (Russell Okung, 2009) to earn Offensive Lineman of the Year.

♦ Bill Snyder was tabbed as Coach of the Year for the third time (1998, 2002) in his career.

♦ Quinn Sharp is the third Oklahoma State player in the last four years (Dez Bryant, 2008 and Dan Bailey, 2010) to earn Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Year.

♦ Aaron Horne is the second Iowa State player to be recognized as the top offensive newcomer while Arthur Brown is the sixth defensive newcomer from Kansas State.

♦ Tyler Lockett is Kansas State’s first offensive freshman of the year while Quandre Diggs is the fifth Texas player to earn top freshman defensive honors.

♦ Oklahoma has won the most major awards in the 16-year history of the Big 12 with 27. Texas is next with 23 winners, followed by Kansas State (19); Oklahoma State (12), Iowa State (8), Texas Tech (7), Kansas (6), Missouri (6), Texas A&M (5) and Baylor (3).

** Unanimous Selection.^ - Repeat first team selection from last season.# - Repeat second team selection from last season.A tie in voting created an additional first-team offensive line spot and an additional second-team offensive line spot.Players listed at each position alphabetically by school.